Judge Eberhard Bertelsmann of the North Gauteng High Court delivered the address
published here as he delivered it in Afrikaans in the series of FW de Klerk lectures in
Potchefstroom on 20 February 2012. He dealt with ...

This essay traces two research programmes in broad strokes. Both programmes start from
the same observation — the behaviour of an ant (or termite) colony and the ability of the
ant colony to act in a collective manner ...

The Stockholm Convention: Interaction between science and policy.
The history of mankind shows an increasing trend towards organisation, partly due to the ever-increasing numbers of people on earth, and the reduced ...

Several international events contributed to the fact that the struggle for
South West Africa was not confined only to SWAPO and the South African
forces. Because of a coup d’etat and the economic and moral burden ...

• Summary:
The objective of the South West African People’s Organisation (SWAPO) was to liberate South West Africa (Namibia) from South African rule. In 1962, SWAPO decided to combine the political struggle for the freedom ...

Early in 1926, the agitation for higher minimum wages for unskilled workers
once again flared up in the black community of Bloemfontein. This battle for
higher wages, however, was bowed down by warring black factions ...

• Summary:
This article focuses on several factors that contributed to the establishment of the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). It is argued that the RAU was not primarily founded as a result of the increase in the ...